Distinguished Scholar Awards to Be Presented; Finalists SelectedThree Distinguished Scholar Awards (DSA) will be presented during the 10th annual Celebration of Scholarship, which will be held on Monday, April 5, from 2 to 8:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center, Ballroom Balcony. This year there were 13 nominations from across the campus, and nine finalists were selected. The Distinguished Scholar Awards have been an annual tradition at Kent State University since 1997. Twenty-four Kent State faculty members, including those who will receive the award this year, have earned this distinction by bringing positive recognition to Kent State. Each year, the university community nominates colleagues whose scholarly contributions are distinguished. Each nominee is invited to participate in the process by standing for nomination; preparing a statement about his/her scholarship; submitting a curriculum vitae; providing names of two non-Kent State colleagues who can comment on the importance of his/her work; and by obtaining letters of reference from two Kent State colleagues. Three Distinguished Scholar Awards subcommittees — humanities/arts, social and behavioral sciences and sciences/math, evaluate nominees’ scholarly records. Each subcommittee consists of a cross-disciplinary group of highly regarded scholars. Fifteen faculty members serve as subcommittee reviewers. The DSA committee, which is associated with the University Research Council, oversees the process. Susan Roxburgh, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology, and Laura Bartolo, M.I.L.S., associate professor, College of Arts and Sciences, co-chaired this year’s committee. "As has been the case every year that the DSA has been awarded, the 2004 finalists represent an outstanding range of accomplishments and significant scholarly contributions. In addition to honoring their individual accomplishments, the DSA draws our attention to the vitality of KSU’s research and scholarly activity," said Roxburgh. "The collegial process of nominating and selecting DSA finalists – involving faculty across the university community who volunteer their time to participate in the decision-making process – adds to the prestige of this award," said Bartolo. “The entire university community takes pride in the scholarly accomplishments of the nominated candidates. We offer our sincere congratulations to this year's finalists,” said Roxburgh. Criteria for evaluating nominees’ scholarship include:
The following nine Distinguished Scholar Awards finalists have distinguished themselves and brought significant positive recognition to Kent State. Raj Aggarwal, Ph.D., has an undergraduate degree in industrial engineering, a
Edna Erez, Ph.D., LL.B, has a law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Greer Glazer, R.N., C.N.P., Ph.D., F.A.A.N., is professor and director of parent/child nursing at the Kent State University College of Nursing. Glazer’s career
Gregory M. Shreve, Ph.D., is professor of modern and classical language studies (applied linguistics) and founder/director of the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University, the country’s foremost university-based translation program. - Stephanie Wolf
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M.B.A. in operations management, and a doctorate in corporate finance and international business. His professional interests include finance, international business, e-commerce and strategic analysis, and his scholarly work covers asset pricing, investment management, banking and international finance. Prior to serving as the Firestone Chair in Finance at Kent State, he was the Mellen Chair in Finance at John Carroll; he also has taught at Harvard, Hawaii, Michigan, Seton Hall, South Carolina and Toledo. He has worked as an engineer, financial analyst, strategic planner, department chair, consultant and corporate board member. He is the author of 12 books and more than 50 scholarly papers in leading finance, economics, international business, marketing and management journals. Aggarwal is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, has been a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in Southeast Asia and has received many teaching and research honors.
Maggie Anderson, M.S.W., M.A., is a professor of English, director of the Wick Poetry Center, editor for the Wick Poetry Series and the author of four books of poems. Her most recent work is Windfall: New and Selected Poems published in 2000. Her other books include A Space Filled with Moving and Cold Comfort. Anderson is also the editor of the selected poems of Louise McNeill and co-editor of Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry About School and A Gathering of Poets. She has received two fellowships for her poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as grants from the Ohio and Pennsylvania Arts Councils. In 2003, she received the Ohioana Poetry Award for the body of her work and her contributions to poetry in Ohio. 
a M.A. in criminology and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Erez has been published in top quality journals, and her publications record includes more than 100 scholarly articles, book chapters and reports on topics such as victim participation in proceedings, victimization of women, including in the context of transnational crime and in conflicted areas. She received more than $1 million in grants from state and federal agencies in the United States and overseas. Her publications have been used in training conferences for police officers, prosecutors and judges in several countries. Erez served as the editor of Justice Quarterly and is on the editorial board of several major professional journals in criminology, victimology and legal studies. 
Susanna Fein, Ph.D., is a professor and chair of English and the coordinator of the ancient, medieval and Renaissance studies minors. Educated at the University of Chicago and Harvard, professor Fein has taught at Kent State since 1985. She works on the literatures and cultures of the medieval period (ca. 1100-1500), especially as found in texts written in Middle English, and she coordinated international collaborative investigations of manuscripts containing such texts. She is the editor of The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literacy Criticism, and has authored three books, as well as numerous articles about medieval subjects. 
has focused on women’s health via teaching, research and service. She was involved in the development and implementation of the first nursing doctorate programs at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and Case Western Reserve University. She also helped develop the women’s health nurse practitioner program at Kent State’s College of Nursing and master’s in women’s health nursing at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her research has focused on women’s health, with research on clinically relevant topics, including domestic violence education and a support program for women’s health nurses, barriers to the provision and utilization of prenatal health care delivery services for African-American women in Stark County and others. She has a sustained record of external funding and has held numerous leadership roles and received many prestigious awards.
Edwin Gould, Ph.D., received his doctorate degree in inorganic chemistry from UCLA in 1950, which was the first Ph.D. program in that specialty awarded by that institution. Gould has been teaching college-level chemistry for 54 years. Prior to teaching at Kent State, he began teaching at the Polytechnic Institute of New York and then taught at San Francisco State University until 1967. He has conducted experimental research in inorganic reaction mechanisms since 1960, and has generated 202 research articles, seven chapbooks of poetry (that have little to do with chemistry) and two graduate-level textbooks that have been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Serbo-Croatian.
Michael Y. Hu, Ph.D., holds the Bridgestone Endowed Chair in International Business and is professor of marketing in the College of Business Administration. Before coming to Kent State in 1981, he worked in the marketing science division at AT&T, in charge of the largest consumer research project in the world. He has published more than 110 academic journal articles in marketing research, international business and artificial neural networks (ANNs). He is particularly known for his work in consumer survey responses, Sino-foreign joint ventures and ANN modeling. Hu plays a pivotal role in the doctoral program in the college and has served on more than 70 dissertation committees here at Kent State. He won the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 1994. 
Rebecca B. Rubin, Ph.D., professor and graduate coordinator of communication studies in the College of Communication and Information, came to Kent State in 1982. She has published six books, 25 book chapters and 50 journal articles, presented more than 100 scholarly papers, been ranked as the fourth most prolific woman scholar in the communication discipline (16th overall), and given research presentations in more than a dozen countries. Her communication specialties include interpersonal, personal and mediated, Internet and instructional. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Penn State and her doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 
He received his doctorate in anthropology from Ohio State University and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the general editor of the monograph series Translation Studies and co-author of several influential books and anthologies on translation studies including Translation as Text with Albrecht Neubert and Cognitive Processes in Translation and Interpreting with Joseph H. Danks. He has authored and co-authored more than 50 articles and has been a principal or co-principal investigator on grants totaling almost 1 million dollars. Shreve has broad research interests in translation theory and practice, computer-assisted translation, corpus linguistics, internationalization, software localization and language informatics.